Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 2 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 3 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 4 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 5 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 6 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 7 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 8 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 9 | I 've been away from my part of the family since I was fifteen . |
| 10 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 11 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 12 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 13 | During the time that you 've been away from work you have certainly not been ‘ not working ’ — you have undertaken a whole host of activities which happen to have been unpaid . |
| 14 | And , of course , the job will get worse the longer you 've been away from the office . |
| 15 | You 've been away from active duty for a while , have n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | Anything you say dear , you 've been away in the san , you 've been out |
| 17 | I 've spoken to Kevin Moran when we 've been away with the Republic of Ireland and he says things there are quite relaxed . |
| 18 | And er if it 's more convenient , if you 've got er a lengthy inquiry , call into any tax office , the nearest one , I 've even called into tax offices when we 've been away for a weekend , just to pick up brochures and things like that . |
| 19 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 20 | Do n't worry , they 've been away from England for ten years … |
| 21 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 22 | I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home |